29 September, 2016

Dilma Rousseff says successor “confessed to the coup”

Coup
in Brazil

In the first
exclusive interview following her impeachment, former Brazilian
president Dilma Rousseff said that her unelected successor, installed
president Michel Temer, has “confessed to the coup” against her.

Rousseff was
referring to controversial public remarks delivered by Temer last
week in which he explicitly stated that the impeachment process was
initiated due to Rousseff’s refusal to accept his party’s
neo-liberal economic plan, rather than the alleged budgetary
manipulations which served as the stated justification for
impeachment. Temer’s remarks were first reported by The Intercept
Brasil last Thursday.

As Rousseff
stated:

“Also,
there were those with their own plans who wanted something else: ‘We
will implement a political program that was not approved by the
ballot box, a different political plan’. And this is being
confessed, there’s something curious about this coup, they confess
the coup. Two days later. They’re confessing. Last confession came
from the illegitimate and usurper president, currently in office, who
said the following: ‘We came up with the impeachment to implement
the program ‘Bridge to the Future’. Well, the program ‘Bridge
to the Future’, that takes away labor rights, takes away social
rights, privatizes, and sells lands to foreigners, this program was
not approved by the ballot box. So, this is another reason behind the
coup.”